How are Mormons so nice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea, but my experience has been the same. I wish I could believe in the Book of Mormon, because it seems to be quite magical.

Have you ever tried reading it with the purpose of wanting to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no idea, but my experience has been the same. I wish I could believe in the Book of Mormon, because it seems to be quite magical.

Have you ever tried reading it with the purpose of wanting to believe.

Have you actually tried reading it? It's gibberish. http://bookofmormonfacts.com/book-of-mormon/true-false/

[Anonymous]

I know this is an old thread, but interestingly, there are a large number of Mormons that work for the FBI.

[Anonymous]

I was just watching Cuomo on CNN interviewing a polygamist Mormon family....three wives.....good grief. Apparently there is a special coming up on the practice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is an old thread, but interestingly, there are a large number of Mormons that work for the FBI.

I can see that. FBI values clean-cut people, no drug use in their past, able to pass the thorough background checks. If you’re already living that lifestyle due to your religion, it would be a lot easier to work at a place like the FBI that happens to share those values.

[Anonymous]

I have a lot of Mormon friends and a sister who is Mormon. Growing up I went with them to their Wards on Sunday when I had sleep overs. It is a bizarre religion. Nice people but I would say Mormon is a socially acceptable cult. Their views in women and Blacks/AA are offensively dated.

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Anonymous wrote:I worked with a Mormon lawyer in a firm here in DC. He was a complete and utter RACIST like I've never met before. He seemed to be really nice on the surface (we all thought so when we were junior attorneys) but spend any time with him and his ignorance, bigotry and racist attitude spilled out. He was scary in that way - racist with a big smile.

This sums up pretty much every Mormon I've ever met. Racist with a huge smile!

But it's not that straight forward... there are a lot of Mormon converts from South America living here. I met some Mormons from Brazil who converted and married American Mormons. Some get sponsorship thru student visas to study at BYU.

In our neighborhood, there is a mix family. But yes, they too have a big smile with an intense look.

[Anonymous]

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I have no interest in becoming a Mormon but the Mormon families I know are all very close, loving and hard working

from the outside looking in perhaps. Mormons are no different from any other people -- there are lots of skeletons in those closets. Wealth is very important, and smiling through grief is too. I knew kids who were being abused by parents, and the church did nothing to protect those children, but instead protected the parents from law enforcement. Dissent is not tolerated, and everyone has to toe the line or be kicked out.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2016/06/10/3787182/navajo-sue-mormon-over-sex-abuse/
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/03/10/is-the-mormon-church-expanding-the-role-of-women/
http://www.mormonstories.org/john-dehlin/

Yes, and look at the Marriott family lawsuit. Mormons are a lot like 1950s culture - everything has to look perfect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

You are perhaps not high enough up to see what really goes on. A dear friend of mine left the company M because of the hypocrisy, especially towards women.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have known a group of Mormon lawyers for almost a decade and not one has ever gossiped, shirked work, boasted, been caught in a lie, or lost their temper to my knowledge. I have been to their houses, met their wives, worked closely with them on miserable cases with long days, late nights, and awful colleagues. I have seen them each under extreme pressure and in unfair situations. Yet, they have been unfailingly kind, patient, calm, and good.

How is this possible?

There is literally no one else I have ever known who has kept up such exemplary behavior for even a week. Not even other religious people I know (who profess to have the "joy of the Lord" and other such nonsense, but are worse than most athiests and agnostics who profess no such moral standards).

I don't have a religious bone in my body, but I would love to learn how to maintain such exemplary behavior. I would also love to teach it to my kids.

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Mormons spend all of Sunday at church, fast all morning beforehand, tithe a bunch of their money to their church without fail, go on meaningful Missions as young adults, and a whole host of other things *in practice* to keep their faith. They are amazing, in terms of practicing, as you said, OP. I have known many Mormons, and lived with a couple in my younger days (as roommates), and it is not just an "act", or demonstrated when it is "convenient" to them. I really admire them, myself.

OTOH, I know Catholics (this is not bashing, as my husband is Catholic) - who go to church for an hour each Sunday and treat their neighbors, quite literally, like crap - attacking them at every turn. They infinitely *say* they are a "good person", and rarely show it, or show it only when it is convenient. Such hogwash. I avoid those people like the plague to society and mankind that they are.

OP here. What you describe is my exact experience of Catholics and Evangelicals. I didn't want to name names in my first post, but most Christians other than Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses are thoroughly miserable people, in my experience. I have a family full of various sects of Christians and they are just awful.

Most Christians? You do know that Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians and many other NON-FUNDAMENTALIST houses of worship are Christian too?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

You are perhaps not high enough up to see what really goes on. A dear friend of mine left the company M because of the hypocrisy, especially towards women.

If you’re not one of them you’ll never, ever know what’s really going on.

[Anonymous]

Um....the woman who cuts my hair is Mormon and she gossips about everyone as she does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: I work for a large fortune 500 company that was founded by Mormons. I have to tell you this is the most ethical company I have ever worked in and ironically the most LGBT friendly company as well. I definitely see with the OP sees.

You are perhaps not high enough up to see what really goes on. A dear friend of mine left the company M because of the hypocrisy, especially towards women.

If you’re not one of them you’ll never, ever know what’s really going on.

+1

[Anonymous]

I likely posted before. Grew up Mormon in NOVA. Realized at 13 it was ridiculous for women. Sure, they smile and are nice. It's not egalitarian. They view women as second class citizens. Women can't enter the priesthood. When I asked the question, I was told women have the miracle of birth. Lots of sexism and racism. Backwards Frankenstein thinking.

But, yes they are nice white men subjugating women who may or may not bake awesomely.

[Anonymous]

I guess all families have dirty secrets.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/30/marriotts-former-heir-apparent-sues-father/